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Economizer
Economizers (US and Oxford spelling), or economisers (UK), are mechanical devices intended to reduce energy consumption, or to perform useful function such as preheating a fluid. The term economizer is used for other purposes as well. Boiler, power plant, heating, refrigeration, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) uses are discussed in this article. In simple terms, an economizer is a heat exchanger. Robert Stirling's innovative contribution to the design of hot air engines of 1816 was what he called the 'Economiser'.
Refroidisseur par évaporation
Un refroidisseur par évaporation est un dispositif qui refroidit l'air par évaporation de l'eau. Le refroidissement par évaporation diffère des systèmes typiques de climatisation, qui utilisent des cycles de réfrigération compression de vapeur ou absorption. Le refroidissement par évaporation utilise le fait que l'eau absorbe une quantité relativement importante de chaleur pour s'évaporer (c'est-à-dire qu'elle a une grande enthalpie de vaporisation). La température de l'air sec peut être considérablement abaissée par l'évaporation de l'eau.
Cryocooler
A refrigerator designed to reach cryogenic temperatures (below ) is often called a cryocooler. The term is most often used for smaller systems, typically table-top size, with input powers less than about 20 kW. Some can have input powers as low as 2–3 W. Large systems, such as those used for cooling the superconducting magnets in particle accelerators are more often called cryogenic refrigerators. Their input powers can be as high as 1 MW.
Timeline of heat engine technology
This timeline of heat engine technology describes how heat engines have been known since antiquity but have been made into increasingly useful devices since the 17th century as a better understanding of the processes involved was gained. A heat engine is any system that converts heat to mechanical energy, which can then be used to do mechanical work.They continue to be developed today. In engineering and thermodynamics, a heat engine performs the conversion of heat energy to mechanical work by exploiting the temperature gradient between a hot "source" and a cold "sink".